Flushable Wipe Video - HILARIOUS!

Then follow this link to more fascinating news:
http://foresternetwork.com/daily/water/water-treatment/wet-wipes-gone-wild-case-studies/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=Forester%20Full+Forester%20Daily%20Newsletter+Forester%20Daily%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=FDN-02262016-Water

New Times, New Sewer!

Read the New Times very comprehensive article here as to money available to help out with laterals: as hooking up begins next month!

http://www.newtimesslo.com/news/13476/hooking-up-slo-county-and-department-of-agriculture-offer-sewer-subsidies-to-los-osos-property-owners/

The New Times has announced a County informational meeting about the financial programs set for March 22 at the Los Osos Middle School. Time not yet available, but do mark the date!

Make Your Own Sewer Slime!

You don't need a sewer to make this stuff! And you can totally make it at home, but you might need to go to the store for the ingredients unless you happen to have borax sitting around and a half a cup of white glue. Anyway, check this out, and just remember, there are some cautions to using borax.*

http://www.nickelodeonparents.com/donnys-sewer-slime/

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• Pregnant women must stay away from borax.
• Borax is not safe to be used around cats and is known to cause severe breathing problems in them.
• Borax effectively treats adult fleas and flea larvae; however, it is not known to eliminate flea eggs. Thus, re-infestation is likely and one needs to reapply the product again after a few weeks.
• Borax powders should be kept away from moisture as it can render the product ineffective. Wet carpets can also get permanently discolored or damaged if borax is used on them.
• Borax powder must never be used directly on the pets’ body for killing fleas.
• Borax should not be used near household plants as it can cause toxicity.
• Pet owners with young children and babies should use borax powder with extreme caution as ingestion in large quantities** has been known to cause severe health complications, skin allergies etc

** Has anyone defined what a "large quantity" is?

Sewer News From Maine Beach Town

Every now and then it is fun to cruise around the US and see what other sandy towns are doing (or have NOT been doing) with their sewage! Here is a peek at a small beach town where the septics have run amok, although not nearly to our elephantine scale. They will likely not need special legislation to secure their USDA loan like we did.

I think that the idea of new business and expanding population kept Los Osos from addressing the growing water problems that started in the 1970s. If we follow this along, let's see if that "threat" wrecks havoc in this small berg.

http://bangordailynews.com/2016/02/21/news/midcoast/lincolnville-seeks-grant-for-beach-sewer-system/

Minnesota Map Monitors Infrastructure

This is pretty amazing. Wish California did this...........check it out!

http://www.auditor.state.mn.us/maps/

Addendum to BOS Agenda February 23

4. Addendum to Item #20 - Request to amend the Fiscal Year 2015-16 Fixed Asset List for Fund Center 430 – Los Osos Wastewater System Fund to add one forklift, one welder, one copier, one all-terrain vehicle, one portable pump and one portable generator at a total estimated cost of $147,000. Staff is amending the item to correct the total estimated cost within the existing project budget from $147,000 to be $154,000 due to a typographical error. District 2. 
   

http://agenda.slocounty.ca.gov/agenda/sanluisobispo/Proposal.html?select=5699

BOS Agenda February 23 - Sewer Fixed Asset List!

Updated with links to relevant documents, Thursday, 2-18-16, and a correction to the item number for 25 (it was incorrectly listed as 24, sorry!).

That has to be a title that will garner this posting a negative number of readers if that is even possible. However, it is what is on the agenda for next Tuesday. That and another interesting item......

Consent Agenda - Public Works Items:

20. Request to amend the Fiscal Year 2015-16 Fixed Asset List for Fund Center 430 – Los Osos Wastewater System Fund to add one forklift, one welder, one copier, one all terrain vehicle, one portable pump and one portable generator at a total estimated cost of $147,000 within the existing project budget. District 2. 

Presentations: 

25.  Submittal of a resolution proclaiming February 29, 2016 as "Rare Disease Day" in San Luis Obispo County. All Districts.

Will we on some future agenda see "Mental Disease Day" in Los Osos perhaps? I just saw the video of the BOS meeting on Tuesday, February 16 with the usual suspects. Sigh and groan.....

LOCSD Channels Nostradamus

A friend was clearing out a spot at her house and ran across some papers that she no longer wanted. Of course, knowing how much I love this stuff, she passed this 4-page letter on to me. I had never seen it before, and when I read it, I was amazed how accurately predictions made by the LOCSD board came true. This was written in November of 2003, twelve-plus years ago.

Read it and weep. It should be crystal clear why delaying, then stopping the Tri-W project was a costly idea, not just in the $29 million that we pay for the sewer to be out of town, but in delaying remediation to a horribly damaged water supply. Very little was done to save water until 2012, when water saving measures began with the County's project. We won't be putting clean water back into the basin until mid-2016 at the earliest, if then.

As for what is going on besides the sewer project to protect our water, you might also want to check out what the Basin Management Committee is up to in their efforts to save it too:

http://www.slocountywater.org/site/Water%20Resources/LosOsos/pdf/2016-02-17%20Los%20Osos%20BMC%20Agenda.pdf

December Sewer Update! Paso Water Basin!

Just posted yesterday! The latest on our project! See the cool aerial shot of the facility! And....the ARB lawsuit simmers along.....oh well.

http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/PW/LOWWP/PM+Monthly+Update+Dec2015.pdf

On a very interesting note, our District 2 Supervisor, Bruce Gibson has an opinion piece in today's Tribune, likening the water controversy in Paso Robles to our years-long contentious sewer project. He did a great job writing and breaking down the stages of emotion around this contentious issue. I do hope people in Paso will be smart enough to NOT do what we have done - fight and deny and postpone. (Folks, it ONLY gets MORE EXPENSIVE. We know of what we speak - what was $34.6 million in 1984, is now $183 million in 2016, an INCREASE if $148 million, PLUS our water basin is in dire straits!)

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article58857173.html

Monarch Grove Late On BOS Agenda

Chairperson Lynn Compton had to ask the Board to vote on an extension to go past 5:00 p.m. at the BOS meeting on Tuesday, February 2.  The Monarch Grove agenda item had been switched with another item and went last on the agenda. There were three other issues along with Monarch Grove on this item. Staff presented their report. 

There was public comment. Roger Randall on the Board of the Monarch Grove HOA spoke. He said 74 voted to join the sewer and nine didn't vote, and he assumed that they were not opposed to hook up to the Los Osos Prohibition Zone sewer project. The Monarch Grove sewer's lines were scoped and jetted and passed muster. MG resident Martin Bragg spoke. He didn't want any complexity added to wastewater treatment and wanted to hook up to the County's sewer project. 

Adam Hill moved to pass this item, Bruce Gibson seconded and spoke on how the County was look forward to helping Monarch Grove hooked up and that the next steps would be at the Coastal Commission.  All five Supes voted yes and they did manage to finish up before 5:00 p.m.. 

Congratulations Monarch Grove! Hopefully you will be on  Coastal Commission agenda very soon!

Need Lateral Help?

I can't resist linking this brand new website on here as it offers services for everything lateral all in one place, from estimates, contractors, permits, repairs (and improvements), tank decommissioning, financing, and tank repurposing! Have a look!

http://thelocalconnection805.com